#law-enforcement

#law-enforcement

Starbucks said on Tuesday that it had conducted an investigation of the incident and had fired the employee who had handed over the coffee cup at the drive-thru window, even though the investigation found that the drawing was not intentionally meant to be offensive. Starbucks spokesperson Jaci Anderson said the drawing of a popular meme, John Pork, was created in the morning, hours before the deputy visited the coffee shop.

A former Navy SEAL with neo-Nazi beliefs faces up to 10 years in prison after he was convicted of transporting fireworks across state lines with the intent to injure law enforcement at a "No Kings" protest in San Diego, authorities said. FBI agents found messages on Gregory Vandenberg's phone indicating he was upset with President Trump because he believed the U.S. government is controlled by Israel and the Jewish people, according to the Department of Justice.

I can honestly say the expression of appreciation by others was regularly awkward to receive, yet contributed significantly to my well-being. I later learned that receiving appreciation with grace not only eased that comfort level but was also a gift to the other person. Now, in this stage of my life, I am very intentional about expressing my appreciation for those still wearing the badge, and I approach the moment with authenticity and an understanding of how my expression may be received.

Within two years, it had spread to every continent. Members - a lot of them teenagers - were finding kids as young as nine on Minecraft and Roblox. They'd befriend them, earn their trust, then trap them. They forced children to hurt themselves on camera. To hurt animals. To do things I'm not going to describe here. That kid from Texas is serving eighty years now. But 764 didn't stop. It splintered and kept growing.

We're aware of the situation,

New South Wales police said public order and riot squad officers would carry the weapons at the fifth and final Ashes Test, which starts on Sunday at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG), after similar measures were implemented at the Boxing Day Test in Melbourne and New Year's Eve events in Sydney. Police said the decision was not due to any active or imminent threat.

"I look at the audience as a spice rack," he said. "I know I'm gonna make a great meal; I'm just not sure of the ingredients yet."

But what would happen if such a technology were to land in the hands of terrorists and criminals, who aren't beholden to the norms of modern warfare at all? In a new report, pan-European police agency Europol's Innovation Lab has imagined a not-so-distant future in which criminals could hijack autonomous vehicles, drones, and humanoid robots to sow chaos - and how law enforcement will have to step up as a result.

Desperate to focus on anything other than competently running a railroad, Amtrak made news this fall by arresting a couple hundred men for "public lewdness" in Penn Station, the implication being that they were cruising the bathrooms there for sex. This caused a minor uproar. New York's Rep. Jerry Nadler sent a letter demanding Amtrak, "Cease ... targeting members of the LGBTQ community ... on the basis of their perceived sexual orientation."

The FBI and multiple Los Angeles law enforcement agencies held a joint press conference Monday to announce that they'd disrupted a Southern California bomb plot planned for New Year's Eve, according to PBS. Four suspects were allegedly testing their bombs in San Bernardino County this past Friday, as seen below in FBI surveillance footage, and SFGate reports they were planning to detonate the bombs in at least five different Southern California locations on New Year's Eve.

The person in their 20s was released after the investigation ended up going in a different direction, according to the mayor of Providence, Brett Smiley. We have not yet solved this case, but I am confident we are going to do that in the near future, Rhode Island attorney general Peter Neronha said, adding there was only a quantum of evidence which justified detaining this person as a person of interest.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Hundreds of law enforcement officers from 23 different agencies coming as far south as Salinas and north to Los Altos descended on a Target store in San Jose on Wednesday, armed with big smiles and goodwill to join nearly 200 elementary school students on a holiday shopping spree. This was Shop With a Cop Foundation of Silicon Valley's 18th annual event, which many officers some wearing Santa hats and reindeer antlers call their favorite day of the year.

Federal agents have seized 300 pounds of crystal methamphetamine in Brooklyn, marking one of the largest meth busts in New York City history. The drugs, valued at one million dollars, were discovered in a tractor-trailer disguised as a shipment of papayas. According to the DEA, smugglers had cleverly concealed the meth in compartments sawn into the pallets. The driver of the tractor-trailer was arrested and faces numerous drugs and weapons charges.

"drove a vehicle into an airport taxiway at a high rate of speed,"

AI is no longer just identifying suspected criminals from behind a camera; now it's rendering photorealistic images of their mugs for cops to blast out on social media. Enter ChatGPT, the latest member of the Goodyear Police Department, located on the outskirts of Phoenix. New reporting by the Washington Post revealed that Goodyear cops are using the generative AI tool to pop out photos of suspects in place of pen-and-paper police sketches.

"active aggressor"

What's more fun for a transportation nerd than hating on the Cybertruck? Answer: Watching your favorite urbanist YouTuber breaking down exactly why it sucks with well-researched, granular detail.

Radicalization in the United States is a massive problem, and, by the way, requires the FBI and the DoJ to actually do the thing they are supposed to do track down the groups doing the radicalizing, Shapiro said. He continued, [That is a] significantly harder problem to solve really, a much harder law enforcement problem to solve than just shutting the borders, which is what President Trump is attempting to do.

We're so happy to present the Streetsblog debut of Joel Katuala, who has been a prolific pro-bike YouTuber for about a month now. His latest contribution? A short video lambasting Mayor Adams - and, by extension, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch (who will stay in office) - for the criminal crackdown that began on cyclists that began this spring. Here, Katuala, who describes himself as a "fairly optimistic person," makes the pessimistic case against the Adams administration's crackdown.

My removal was political, not professional and that should concern every resident of this county. In San Mateo County, retaliation isn't about justice, it's selective, targeted and uneven, Aenlle told the Post in an email. My removal was not about conduct, performance or qualification, Aenlle said. It was political. It was retaliatory. Sheriff Binder made the decision to release me not because I failed to serve, but because I stood for accountability, fairness and transparency.

Brett Maxwell, a 51-year-old apartment manager, was arrested on suspicion of possessing firearms, assault weapons and narcotics for sale after the Santa Clara County Gun Violence Task Force located 19 firearms and "several pounds" of methamphetamine and heroin in his apartment and storage unit, according to a news release from the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office. The cache of weapons also included explosives and ghost guns - weapons manufactured without serial numbers - and three of the firearms were assault weapons, prosecutors added.

Authorities on Tuesday identified a man who was fatally hit by a car on a city street late Sunday. The collision that killed 55-year-old Anthony Rizotto happened about 8 p.m. at the intersection of Monument Boulevard and Reganti Drive, according to police. The Contra Costa Sheriff's Office identified him publicly Tuesday and said he did not have a listed city of residence.

OpenAI's generative AI platform doesn't have many fans in the creative community, and it seems you can count Trey Stone and Matt Parker among them. The South Park duo largely center this week's episode around the AI video platform, with a plot in which Butters ignites a school-wide scandal after seeking revenge on his ex-girlfriend, Red, by using Sora to generate a video of her farting and getting urinated on by Santa.

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- Authorities on Wednesday are responding to a report of a shooting at Oakland's Skyline High School.

The facts of the incident are ostensibly simple: In the early days of Trump's militarization of the nation's capital, Dunn-a 37-year-old Air Force veteran and, at the time, Justice Department employee-screamed at federal officers stationed in a popular nightlife corridor, repeatedly calling them fascists, and then hurled a Subway footlong at a Customs and Border Protection agent, hitting him squarely in the chest.

That night I believe I was protecting the rights of immigrants,

On the afternoon of Sunday, August 11, 2024, a few hours after attending church with his wife and three children, Ryan Borgwardt, a 44-year-old carpenter, left home with his kayak, tackle box, and fishing rod and arrived at Big Green Lake, one of the deepest lakes in Wisconsin. The Perseid meteor shower was expected to peak that night, one of the best times of the year to see shooting stars.